Huge expenditure for what purpose???

Will Winton Global ever start up again??

How long can Brink Forest Products last with this collapse of the lumber market??

Rumour has it that Imperial Oil may one day shut down their storage facilities on River Road.

The CN Intermodal Terminal to date has been a disaster with very few containers actually loaded, and with the downturn in the world economy this likely will continue.

Dont know what sort of market research and development, and analysis went into River Road before it was decided to spend all this money, however it seems very little.

Remember that the City tried to get funding for the upgrade of Queensway and for putting in a road on lower Patricia Blvd, but was turned down. Seems they were able to get money for River Road and went ahead with it even if it serves no useful purpose.

Maybe the new road is to service the Citys much vaunted Co-Generation plant to heat water to heat Government buildings. They probably intend to build it somewhere on river road. The huge CN building on the East End of river road has been closed. Maybe the City wants to locate their. Who knows???

Maybe someone thinks the River Road area is not in a flood plain? No insurance when you build in a flood plain so this is a waste of taxpayers money.

Sometimes I think that these infrastructure grants have conditions to qualify are so obtuse that the money is never intended to be tapped. But then some weird project comes along that no one in the feds office thought anyone one would apply for, like the River Road project. Who would imagine that anyone would apply to maintain a road in a flood plain?

Maybe Dan Rogers can make some nice paths along river road

Palopu, you should have run for mayor!

Hey, Aren't we fighting with IDL on the bridge, and then they are also doing river road.

HMMMMM, just can't imagine how naive some people are. IDL is going to be doing all the tax payers.

Preparing the road for when the economy starts moving forward again. Good to think positive for a change. Dan Rogers seems to do that.

Flood plain or not, River Rd will eventually service all the higher density residential areas that will be built there which can be raised to the road level and even a few feet higher.

Once the heavy industrial moves out, and once people discover how to build properly in a flood plain on some of the sections on the south side of the road, this should end up as prime property.

We need this road fixed. The gravel import for flood control in the last winter made a mess of things. Can't have a major road like this in a city left as gravel. And if Brinks and Global are having a tough time of it right now there in good company with the rest of the world. Like DPJ says we have to be ready to go for the turn around. Unless all you old farts think that busness will stop when you all retire.

Also, who ever said IDL would do river road? Unless you mean the storm infiltrator built in the winter that no one else was interested in bidding on.

Will IDL constuct the river road upgrades? If they are the only bidders again you can count on it!

We need this road fixed. The gravel import for flood control in the last winter made a mess of things. Can't have a major road like this in a city left as gravel. And if Brinks and Global are having a tough time of it right now there in good company with the rest of the world. Like DPJ says we have to be ready to go for the turn around. Unless all you old farts think that busness will stop when you all retire.

Also, who ever said IDL would do river road? Unless you mean the storm infiltrator built in the winter that no one else was interested in bidding on.

Will IDL constuct the river road upgrades? If they are the only bidders again you can count on it!

River road services industry. No more, no less, it does not serve the citizens of Prince George. The area along the river prior to industry was the best residential and parkland in the City. Industry is directly responsible for spending so much of taxpayer's money on a useless road that goes nowhere. Flooding was not an issue until industry decided it was. Industry needs to be out of the bowl in its' own indutrial park and we need our river back. Not industry blocking us from the river.

You people are always so nice to the City.

Cant you get it through your head that if the City had been able to get the money from the Federal Government for the upgrade on Queensway, and for the road on lower Patricia Blvd, along with the overpass on First Avenue they would not now be doing River Road.

The Feds told them that there was no money available for the Queensway, Patrica plan, and they then went and made application to get money for the upgrade for River Road under the guise, that it would be part of the Asia Pacific Gateway fund. Using the failed CN Intermodal Terminal as part of the rational for the funding.,

After the money is spent, and nothing happens on River Road, you can rest assured that all the **Yes Men** will say that the project would have been a stunning success, like the Airport Runway Expansion, if it hadnt been for the recession.

The recession will be blamed for all failed projects for the next 10 years, even though they were doomed for failure before they ever got off the drawing board.

This is mostly about Politics, spending public money, and contracts. It has little to do with long term feasible projects that will serve a useful purpose.

The only reason IMO that River Road got funding is because the argument can be made that by raising the road to the 200-year flood plain they would be protecting the PG downtown core from a devastating flood that would do billions of dollars damage to the city. After last years ice jam federal politicians couldn't afford the potential liability nationally, so they could be persuaded as part of the stimulus spending.

I think the raised road could have potential benefits to the city in another ice jam situation, but in a full blown flood it will do little because the water will come up through the gravel and flood the downtown anyways.

I think the city pushed this project for the single reason that they paid for the Nechako Bridge... the city plans to have its industrial dangerous goods route run through the city via the new Nechako Bridge, rather than around the city where a new industrial park could be serviced. I think the city is run by empire building bureaucrats that see only tax revenue they can trap for their own benefit... and thus industry needs to be located along the dangerous goods route inside the city, so that the city maximizes its tax revenue potential... the quality of life factor is irrelevant to city planing.

That said its anyones guess what the vision of PG City Hall is... ask L&M would be a good bet? I assume its the dangerous goods route planning that drives this decision... next they'll ask for $52 million to pay for the new Airport 'dangerous good route' segment that goes through the most ravine ridden slide prone zone in the entire city... need to subsidize the development with tax dollars for private profits and future city tax revenues?

IMO we would have been better off starting to build a real ring road for industrial traffic ignoring the city boundary and incorporating a future industrial park outside of the city air shed. This dangerous goods route is akin to building the pulp mills directly across the river from the downtown core.

Time Will Tell

I agree with you Eagleone when you say "the dangerous goods route (through the City" is akin to building the pulp mills directly across the river from the downtown core".
Short sighted political decisions affect the health, safety and well being of the citizens of this City. Surely we should be past that by now????